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Palm reported revenue that beat Wall Street's low expectations and a smaller loss than a year ago, but the smart-phone maker said its products are still struggling to catch on. The results are more evidence that the one-time mobile pioneer is lagging rivals and could become a takeover target.

Somaxon shares gained the most out of all U.S. stocks today, while Boeing shares lifted the Dow and new CEO drove up Barnes and Noble shares. Meanwhile, rumors of a Google, Intel and Sony partnership also moved those stocks.

Palm, the onetime handset pioneer, is in trouble. The company lowered its 2010 sales forecasts for its Pre and Pixi devices, which were supposed pull it out of a slump. Sales would be "well below" the $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion it had previously forecast, Palm said.

With the possibility that AT&T may lose its exclusive iPhone deal, the carrier is now hedging its bets. The telecom giant on Wednesday unveiled a new lineup of high-end mobile phones, including five powered by Google's Android operating system. That could be a smart move for an operator that's savvy about its bottom line.

GPS software- and hardware-maker TomTom slashed prices on its iPhone turn-by-turn navigation app, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) reported Monday. The new price for the app providing directions in the U.S. is $49, well down from the original price of $99, as reported by Engadget.

Some pieces of news are worth mentioning only in passing because they are interesting, but may not mean a thing. CNET says that over 100 people lined up at midnight to be early buyers of the new Motorola (MOT) Droid handset at a Verizon (VZ) store in Manhattan. The store in Herald Square had 500...

Sometimes bad stocks happen to good companies. That's not a moral judgment; it's merely a reminder that shares and the corporations that issue them are not the same thing. After all, the best company in the world isn't worth buying into if its stock is too expensive -- and likely to fall. The...

It sure was fitting that Google (GOOG) killed an entire product segment on Oct. 28, just a day before the 80th anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash. And appropriately enough, on Wednesday the tech-heavy NASDAQ tumbled mightily. Contributing to that fall was the pummeling of GPS makers Garmin...

Already loaded with more than 25,000 applications, the shelves at the iPhone app store are about to get a lot heavier. A nifty software-development tool that makes it much easier to build applications for the popular Apple (AAPL) smartphone is expected to lead to a lot more personal finance...

Sometimes, we can learn from our mistakes. During the height of the dot com bubble, investors kept plowing money into tech stocks, hoping for ever greater returns. For many years, companies obliged, beating revenue and earnings expectations. Eventually, in early 2000 when the economy began to lose...